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Pragmatics Always Matters: An Expanded Vision of Experimental Pragmatics [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2020
Much of the work in experimental pragmatics is devoted to testing empirical hypotheses that arise within the study of linguistic and philosophical pragmatics.
Raymond W. Gibbs, Herbert L. Colston
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Editorial: Experimental Approaches to Pragmatics

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
Valentina Cuccio   +4 more
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Figurative Archive: an open dataset and web-based application for the study of metaphor [PDF]

open access: yesScientific Data
Research on metaphor has steadily increased over the last decades, as this phenomenon opens a window into a range of linguistic and cognitive processes. At the same time, the demand for rigorously constructed and extensively normed experimental materials
Maddalena Bressler   +11 more
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Development and Validation of a Rapid Tool to Measure Pragmatic Abilities: The Brief Assessment of Pragmatic Abilities and Cognitive Substrates (APACS Brief) [PDF]

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences
Pragmatics is key to communicating effectively, and its assessment in vulnerable populations is of paramount importance. Although tools exist for this purpose, they are often effortful and time-consuming, with complex scoring procedures, which hampers ...
Luca Bischetti   +15 more
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Experimental Contrastive Pragmatics Using Robots [PDF]

open access: yesContrastive Pragmatics, 2020
Abstract In this paper, we explore how robots can be used to study pragmatic strategies across a number of languages. Robots can assume many of the roles played by human interaction partners in a range of situations. They can be programmed to produce specific behaviours, each time repeating a behaviour in an identical way for as often as necessary ...
Fischer, Kerstin   +1 more
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The Role of Working Memory in the Processing of Scalar Implicatures of Patients With Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
A number of studies have demonstrated pragmatic language difficulties in people with Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders. However, research about how people with schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders understand scalar ...
Walter Schaeken   +4 more
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Children’s and Adults’ Sensitivity to Gricean Maxims and to the Maximize Presupposition Principle

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
Up to age 5, children are known to experience difficulties in the derivation of implicitly conveyed content, sticking to literally true, even if underinformative, interpretation of sentences.
Francesca Panzeri, Francesca Foppolo
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Negation in context: evidence from the visual world paradigm [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Literature assumes that negation is more difficult to understand than affirmation, but this might depend on the pragmatic context. The goal of this paper is to show that pragmatic knowledge modulates the unfolding processing of negation due to the ...
Moxey, Linda   +3 more
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The Experimental Turn in Philosophical Pragmatics

open access: yesHumana.Mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2012
Francesca Ervas, Elisabetta Gola
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